Youth, and two other stories, by Joseph Conrad ..
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- Publication date
- 1925
- Publisher
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Co.
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- americana
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- University of Michigan
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 46.1M
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Youth: a narrative.--Heart of darkness.--The end of the tether
Youth: a narrative.--Heart of darkness.--The end of the tether
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- 26022321
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- OL6695598M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL39018W
- Pages
- 394
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Scandate
- 20070207000000
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- 362875
- Year
- 1903
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Subject: Traveling Rough
Subject: Traveling Rough
Youth… The story is based on Joseph Conrad’s personal experience… The tale is written in the very colourful and vivid language and
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in its tone it is heavy with irony.
The narrator is young but he is already a second mate… The captain is sixty-year-old and he is an inveterate sea dog…
And the boat is a masterwork of shipbuilding… The somewhat fatal name of the ship is Judea and the motto painted on its side reads ‘Do or Die’…
They must deliver a cargo of coal to Bangkok but right away they are caught in the furious gale and are beaten badly… And in the wake of this storm the doom starts chasing them incessantly…
Their vessel develops a monstrous leak… But after the prolonged repair in the dock disasters continue to pursue them mercilessly…
Rats know what lies ahead… Somewhere amidst the ocean the cargo of coal begins to smolder… But youth seems to be invincible…
He who boldly passes through the deadly ordeal in his youth and doesn’t break becomes as tempered as steel.
You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something – and you can’t.
The narrator is young but he is already a second mate… The captain is sixty-year-old and he is an inveterate sea dog…
He had a nutcracker face – chin and nose trying to come together over a sunken mouth – and it was framed in iron-gray fluffy hair, that looked like a chin strap of cotton-wool sprinkled with coal-dust.
And the boat is a masterwork of shipbuilding… The somewhat fatal name of the ship is Judea and the motto painted on its side reads ‘Do or Die’…
She was all rust, dust, grime – soot aloft, dirt on deck. To me it was like coming out of a palace into a ruined cottage.
They must deliver a cargo of coal to Bangkok but right away they are caught in the furious gale and are beaten badly… And in the wake of this storm the doom starts chasing them incessantly…
And there was somewhere in me the thought: By Jove! this is the deuce of an adventure – something you read about; and it is my first voyage as second mate – and I am only twenty – and here I am lasting it out as well as any of these men, and keeping my chaps up to the mark.
Their vessel develops a monstrous leak… But after the prolonged repair in the dock disasters continue to pursue them mercilessly…
She was recalked, new coppered, and made as tight as a bottle. We went back to the hulk and reshipped our cargo.
Then on a fine moonlight night, all the rats left the ship.
Rats know what lies ahead… Somewhere amidst the ocean the cargo of coal begins to smolder… But youth seems to be invincible…
Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic light on the wide earth, leaping audaciously to the sky, presently to be quenched by time, more cruel, more pitiless, more bitter than the sea – and like the flames of the burning ship surrounded by an impenetrable night.
He who boldly passes through the deadly ordeal in his youth and doesn’t break becomes as tempered as steel.
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